There is a big difference between a systemic crisis and an ordinary crisis, starting with the degree of involvement of the players involved and the effort needed to reverse it. In a systemic crisis, changing one of the game pieces does not influence the functioning of the system, since it acts autonomously and continually feeds back on procedures that have already been consolidated over time. This is one of the arguments used against the non-elective change of President of the Republic.
An ordinary economic crisis, for example, can be corrected by specific macroeconomic policies in the short and medium term. A systemic economic crisis (which could happen to China, for example, due to its excessively high leverage) entails a gigantic rupture that is difficult to reconstruct.
Notably, Brazil is facing one of the most significant political crises the country has ever experienced. It turns out that the political crisis is just a symptom of a systemic crisis of corruption that has taken on unimaginable proportions and consolidated itself in institutions and organizations. Removing a piece from the game doesn't change the way the system works. On the contrary, a piece doesn't work if it doesn't meet the expectations of the system itself. This is exactly what must be combated in the long term: the cause, not the symptom.
Meanwhile, the country is falling ill amid political, institutional and legal maneuvers to maintain power. An example of this was the extemporaneous decision by Congressman Waldir Maranhão, the interim President of the Chamber of Deputies, who illegally annulled the plenary session of the Chamber that decided on the admissibility of the impeachment process against the President of the Republic.
There is a lot of talk that the President's impeachment would effectively bring few results in the fight against the current political and economic crises. The point is that it corresponds to the beginning of a process of reversing a systemic crisis that must be strongly fought with continuity. Isolated, one-off acts do not influence the system as a whole. A continuous effort for change is needed, starting with the awareness that the problem really exists and is serious. The cause of our political crisis is undoubtedly widespread corruption in organizations and institutions. It is precisely systemic corruption, from the lowest to the highest echelons, that must be fought on a daily basis. This is the main role of young leaders, since this is just one step in a race that will take at least an entire generation to complete. At least we will do our part.
